Anne Marie Gillen - Gillen Group LLC cont.

Gillen Group’s consulting division was established in July 2006 after purchasing Entertainment Business Group’s clientele and proprietary models and databases.The division’s motto is “Fusing Business and Creativity”, and offers business planning, script analysis, worldwide distribution consultation and internal greenlighting (project and/or film company cash flow projections) services to independent film producers and investors.

From 2002 – May 2006, Anne Marie was consulting to Entertainment Business Group (EBG) as their President, Development & Production, an independent motion picture and television funding, global rights sales, research, analysis and business services entity.

From 1996 – 2001, Anne Marie was the Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Freeman’s company, Revelations Entertainment.She led the company in the strategic financing and distribution of Revelations’ projects.During her tenure, Revelations Entertainment produced Along Came the Spider for Paramount; developed and produced Port Chicago Mutiny for NBC Network; and developed, independently financed and produced Under Suspicion starring Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman for Sony Premiere DVDs/Lions Gate.

Prior to her tenure at Revelations Entertainment, Anne Marie was co-founder and CEO of Electric Shadow Productions, and it’s Chair.Electric Shadow fully financed, and Anne Marie was the Executive Producer of its first feature, Fried Green Tomatoes which was released by Universal and starred Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy.This picture earned over $200 million in worldwide theatrical receipts and was nominated for two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes.

She came to Electric Shadow Productions from Hemdale Releasing Corporation where she was Vice President of Acquisitions and Ancillary Sales.During her tenure, Hemdale was one of the leading independent film companies producing such films as: Platoon winner of Best Picture and Best Director, Hoosiers, The Last Emperor winner of nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.

Ms. Gillen was a Co-Founder of Living Literature/Colors United - a non-profit, multi-racial education-based performing arts society for at-risk students in Watts.She was Executive Producer of the feature-length documentary on Colors United entitled Colors Straight Up, which received an Academy Award nomination.Ms. Gillen is the proud recipient of several Commendations from the City of Los Angeles for her outstanding community efforts to improve the youth of Watts.

Throughout the past decade, she has given lectures and workshop seminars at UCLA Film School, USC Film School, Chapman University, Act One Producer Program, Century City Chamber of Commerce Entertainment Symposiums, and at Independent Feature Project seminars in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Cannes, France.

Ms. Gillen is a native Minnesotan and originally hailed from the Twin Cities where she was an actress, dancer and choreographer having worked at the Guthrie II, Children’s Theatre Company, Mixed Blood, Chimera and Minnesota Jazz Dance Company. Cabin 14 Productions is her Minnesota-based film production company.